Hoya Womens Soccer 2023

[RusskyHoya]

www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/womens-wcc-big-12-big-east-previews_aid52338

Big East Preview

The Big East can be hit and miss in terms of elite teams, and the last two seasons displayed that. In 2021 they had five teams make the NCAA tournament, but last season it was only two as multiple teams took a step backward. What is consistent is Georgetown will be somewhere near the top, displayed by their regular season and conference tournament championships last season.

Top Freshmen to Watch:

Anja Jestrovic, Creighton (Serbia U19)

Lydia LeBlanc, Connecticut (#73 Ranked TDS Class of 2023)

Kennedy Clark, Xavier (#101 Ranked TDS Class of 2023)

Isabel Boodell, Georgetown (#105 Ranked TDS Class of 2023)

Daniela Monzon, St. John’s (#145 Ranked TDS Class of 2023)


Top Players to Watch:

Julia Leas, Georgetown

Abigail Isger, Butler

Chioma Okafor, Connecticut

Lara Kazandjian, Creighton

Meg Hughes, Providence

[DanMcQ]

[RusskyHoya]

Not sure this LMU match is happening

[DanMcQ]

Heard earlier today that they were trying to do this.

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[prhoya]

Aug 19, 2023 5:29:40 GMT -5 RusskyHoya said:

US soccer legend Eric Wynalda’s daughter?

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Aug 19, 2023 6:17:59 GMT -5 prhoya said:

Aug 19, 2023 5:29:40 GMT -5 RusskyHoya said:

US soccer legend Eric Wynalda’s daughter?

Yes. Eric is married to Amy Ward, daughter of longtime (26 seasons and counting) Pepperdine coach Tim Ward, so Tatum is playing for her uncle.

[RusskyHoya]

As for the game itself: always extra frustrating to give up a result-changing goal in the final 10 minutes, but it was probably a fair result. Augur was forced to make a reaction save in the first half, doing just enough to deflect the ball off of the post and back to her (and almost did it again on the goal in the 2nd). The Waves deserved at least one goal for all their efforts.

Having said that, the Hoyas looked to have more of - and certainly more comfortable - possession in the first half, even if their opportunities were few and far between. They had a very strong run of play for 20 minutes or so of the second half, and it did feel like another goal was coming. Credit Pepperdine for managing to turn the tide (pun slightly intended)... but then, this is a program that was ranked in the top 10 at one point last season and has both a very well-established system (having a coach well into his third decade at the helm will do that) and some very good athletes to plug into that system. A draw on the road is a fair and respectable result.

Loyola Marymount is a different story. Assuming they get this game off before Hurricane Hilary hits, anything less than a multi-goal margin of victory would have to be considered an underperformance.

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[bearsandbulls]

Aug 19, 2023 8:18:47 GMT -5 RusskyHoya said:

As for the game itself: always extra frustrating to give up a result-changing goal in the final 10 minutes, but it was probably a fair result. Augur was forced to make a reaction save in the first half, doing just enough to deflect the ball off of the post and back to her (and almost did it again on the goal in the 2nd). The Waves deserved at least one goal for all their efforts.

Having said that, the Hoyas looked to have more of - and certainly more comfortable - possession in the first half, even if their opportunities were few and far between. They had a very strong run of play for 20 minutes or so of the second half, and it did feel like another goal was coming. Credit Pepperdine for managing to turn the tide (pun slightly intended)... but then, this is a program that was ranked in the top 10 at one point last season and has both a very well-established system (having a coach well into his third decade at the helm will do that) and some very good athletes to plug into that system. A draw on the road is a fair and respectable result.

Loyola Marymount is a different story. Assuming they get this game off before Hurricane Hilary hits, anything less than a multi-goal margin of victory would have to be considered an underperformance.

Planning on being there again. A bit disappointed in finishing Thursday but not a bad first game roadie against good competition. This will be the first tropical storm to hit SoCal in history. Everyone is going overboard in prep as we are not used to same and what to expect. I would not be surprised if the LMU game is not played due excessive concern and inability to anticipate what to expect on the left coast for such events. I suspect Floridians can have a good laugh over same. Expectations of a year's rain Sunday/Monday with 3 inches at the coast and 7 in the mountains. SoCal is not used to that, and you will hear of mud slides for sure if that happens.
If it happens Beat the Lions.

[RusskyHoya]

Aug 19, 2023 10:13:19 GMT -5 bearsandbulls said:

Planning on being there again. A bit disappointed in finishing Thursday but not a bad first game roadie against good competition. This will be the first tropical storm to hit SoCal in history. Everyone is going overboard in prep as we are not used to same and what to expect. I would not be surprised if the LMU game is not played due excessive concern and inability to anticipate what to expect on the left coast for such events. I suspect Floridians can have a good laugh over same. Expectations of a year's rain Sunday/Monday with 3 inches at the coast and 7 in the mountains. SoCal is not used to that, and you will hear of mud slides for sure if that happens.
If it happens Beat the Lions.

Not quite the first in history (as both someone who grew up on the Gulf Coast and a former FEMA badge-holder, hurricane nerdery is kind of my thing), but ain't too many folks around who remember it.

Stay safe!

www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/hurricane-southern-california-1939.html

Late on Sept. 25, 1939, a violent storm lashed Southern California, sinking boats, flooding mountain resorts and killing nearly 100 people. It was the last tropical cyclone to make landfall in the region.

Now, more than 80 years later, Hurricane Hilary is barreling toward the southwestern United States, threatening to dump enough rain to cause flash flooding and other “rare and dangerous impacts,” the National Hurricane Center said.

Such events are extremely unusual in the region because the dry air, cool water and wind conditions off California’s coast tend to break up hurricanes. Storms in the eastern north Pacific “tend to party hard, crash hard,” said Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University.

But in the case of Hilary, slightly warmer waters caused by El Niño are helping to weaken the storm more slowly, while pressure systems are pushing the storm north toward land.

Along the state’s southern coast, people are preparing for an event not seen in decades.

The 1939 storm, which made landfall in Long Beach, Calif., tore through Los Angeles County and the surrounding area, destroying coastal homes, cutting power and disrupting rail and highway traffic, according to an article published in The New York Times the next day.

Nearly 100 people were killed. Some of the victims drowned at sea, while others died in flooding.

More than a dozen boats were declared missing, and the wreckage of an 80-foot yacht washed up near Huntington Beach, a usually picturesque surf spot. Around 200 people had to be rescued from wrecked leisure and fishing boats. Twenty-three people drowned when a sport fishing boat capsized just 500 feet from a pier at Point Mugu, near Oxnard. And several bodies were recovered from the water, including those of a man and a woman that washed ashore.

In Los Angeles, 5.41 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, the heaviest September rain in the city’s history at the time. A deluge in the Coachella Valley washed out train tracks and destroyed 70 percent of the region’s date crop. The overall damage was estimated to be around $2 million, the equivalent of around $44 million in today’s dollars.

The destruction was staggering. However, it could not compete with news that thousands of civilians were dying in Warsaw during the invasion of Poland. As an article in The Times noted, “Nature in her angriest moods, can scarcely hope to compete with the destruction decreed by Man.”

Other tropical storms have brought tropical storm-force winds to the Southwestern United States, but just two have made landfall in California. Besides the 1939 storm, the only other tropical storm to make landfall in the state was on Oct. 2, 1858, when a hurricane shook San Diego, damaging homes, uprooting trees and causing inland flooding. The Daily Alta California described it as “one of the most terrific and violent hurricanes ever noted,” according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration paper on the event.

Christopher Landsea, a forecaster with the National Hurricane Center and an author of the paper, noted that there were no reported injuries or fatalities.

“Back then, San Diego was just a tiny little town,” he said. “San Diego is so different now that if that same hurricane were to hit today, then the damage could be catastrophic.”

[bearsandbulls]

Thanks for the correction. I was but 2 yrs old with the last one. Haha. Our waters are still too cold for the Hurricane to hold its high numbers as it hits San Diego. The big problem is the ability of the soil to absorb the amount of rain it will get.

A lifelong Nor Cal guy, it took months of rain before slides, etc. happened, but we would watch first storm of the year cause flash flooding in Palm Springs, and cliff slippage in Laguna Beach.

Lived down here since 2004 and this may be the first August storm I recall (but don't check me on it). They are now talking about flights being cancelled into and outta here tomorrow and Monday. Nolan may have to herd cats for an extra day or two, game or no. game.

[DanMcQ]

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[RusskyHoya]

Aug 20, 2023 9:51:47 GMT -5 DanMcQ said:

ESPN+ crew must've skipped town.

[DanMcQ]

1-0 final

[RusskyHoya]

Would've wanted more, but we'll grade on a curve given the weather/travel situation, 10 am local kickoff time, etc.

Not to get too far ahead of ourselves here, but... it's really important to make a good show during the non-conference to get a higher seed and host a 2nd/3rd round pod (not that this is a guarantee of victory, of course, but every bit helps). To only lose once - and that to UVA - in the regular season last year, win the BET, and still have to go down to Tallahassee for the 2nd round is an indicator that we can't rely on the Big East to be rated highly by the tournament committee.

[bearsandbulls]

Need to finish and find the back of the net pretty soon. Bucknell has gone 2-0 with wins over St. Joseph's (4-0) and Geo Washington (3-1). Not able to see the game today, but does not seem we are generating and finishing as needed so far.

[DanMcQ]

Head Coach Dave Nolan
"First off, I have to congratulate the girls on finding a way to win a game in possibly the most difficult circumstances to play a game. An impending hurricane, a moved up kick off, a monsoon to play in and knowing that we need to have a goal scored by the 70th minute or risk the game being tied or even lost due to the weather cancellation.

We didn't play as well as we wanted but, credit to LMU and their staff for having a plan to keep the game tight and executing it well. It took a moment of composure and hustle to fashion a goal that Erika Harwood finished brilliantly. We now have to get home and prepare for Bucknell on Thursday."

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